NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America's untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. She is the anchor and managing editor of NPR's Latino USA. In April 2010, Hinojosa launched The Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that respects and celebrates the cultural richness of the American experience. In addition, Hinojosa is the anchor of the Emmy-award winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza. Hinojosa has reported hundreds of important stories—including the immigrant work camps in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, teen girl victims of sexual harassment on the job, and Emmy-award winning stories of the poor in Alabama—previously as a senior correspondent for PBS' Now and currently as a contributing correspondent on PBS' Need to Know. Throughout her career Hinojosa has helped define the conversation about our times and our society with one of the most authentic voices inNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94Maria HinojosaWed, 07 Dec 2016 09:11:01 +0000Maria Hinojosahttp://ktep.org
Maria HinojosaIn the Saint Anthony of Padua Church in the Bronx, Wednesday night is prayer meeting night.Fifty people gather in the spare assembly room for a ceremony that looks very different from a Catholic Sunday Mass.For one thing, the service is led by a woman rather than a male priest. She preaches excitedly while a rock band of young Salvadoran immigrants backs her up.Some people in the audience hold up their hands; others are swaying gently. There are tears in the crowd.Suddenly, the woman stops speaking in Spanish and begins speaking in tongues.It may sound indecipherable, but for the faithful, it's a sacred language given to them by the Holy Spirit.Welcome To A Different Kind Of CatholicismFor members of the Charismatic Catholic movement, worship centers on establishing a personal connection with God.According to a recent survey conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, about one-third of Latino Catholics in the U.S. identify asA Different Kind Of Catholicism Grows In Latino Communitieshttp://ktep.org/post/different-kind-catholicism-grows-latino-communities
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